Upside Learning
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
A study conducted by the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on the Inc 500 (a list of fastest growing companies in US) reveals interesting trends on usage of Social Media. Twitter has arrived with a bang in 2009. Soon, there will be very few companies NOT using any of the social media.
Learning with e's
MARCH 31, 2010
I couldn't resist re-posting this article which first appeared exactly a year ago, on April 1st 2009. I hope you enjoy it. :-) For many people the Social Web is simply far too complex to organise. They fail to make optimum use of their social network because they don't know enough about its potential.
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Learning with e's
DECEMBER 21, 2009
and social networks as potentially useful educational tools. Another major player in the world of social networking was birthed the same year. In September 2006, Facebook came late to the party, but within a short time (March 2008) it overhauled Myspace as the world's favourite social networking tool.
Learning with e's
MAY 29, 2013
Whether or not we realise it, if we regularly use social media, we are members of the world wide digital tribe. Tribal identity in the age of the Web transcends ethnicity, traditional cultural expectations and geography (Wheeler, 2009). Facebook is currently the largest of the digital totems in the social media universe.
Learning with e's
JULY 16, 2009
Should we try to use social networking services such as Facebook and Myspace as serious educational tools, or should they remain the domain of informal chat and backstage antics? Selwyn N (2009) Faceworking: exploring students' education-related use of Facebook , Learning, Media and Technology, 34 (2), 157-174.
Learning with e's
DECEMBER 20, 2009
The launch of one of the first social networking services Friends Reunited in 2000 paved the ways for a welter of new social networking tools which would revolutionise the way people connected, communicated and shared. Myspace was to become the trend setter - within 3 years it had signed up an astounding 100 million users.
Learning with e's
DECEMBER 8, 2009
80% of children in the UK have encountered unsuitable or harmful content on the Internet (Byron, 2009 - see report link below) and it has usually been down to parents to educate their children about keeping safe on the web - that is until now. Zip it - keep your personal stuff private and think about what you say and do online.
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